Arc
of Ascent are a 3-piece band that consist of a guitarist strapped
with a riff cannon, a bassist who must have stringed up with
rubberbands the size of truck tires, and a drummer who floats like a
skateboarder that rises, falls and abounds within an empty swimming
pool. The overall vibe of this album is reminiscent of an old
Bloodrock gin and tonic, accented with an added new twist of lime
laden stoner doom and psychedelica.

‘Realms
of the Metaphysical’ is a tremendous album of top-notch heaviness
that harmonize the scorpions cacti against the background of a warm,
burnt orange sunset. This album is definitely more solidified and
further self-assured than ‘Circle Of The Sun’ and is
categorically farther in line, at least sonically, with ‘The Higher
Key’.

This
album is a demonstration of gloomy aligned confidence and eerie
united refinement. Every song holds its ontological own, while
simultaneously gelling the album together like elastic super glue.
The songs…

‘Set
The Planets Free’ is slow, deliberate and perfectly stoned. Catch
the riff, its time to fly.

‘Eye
of Sages’ is a crusher; a heavy pound cake containing all the
ingredients required in premier sonic doom.

‘Hexagram’
is a holy surfboard ride along a prehistoric sailfish during the
crustaceous period.

‘In
the Light’ throbs like a giant oil rig drilling deep for nature’s
coveted crude with each support swinging broad and lubricated with
farm margarine.

‘Benediction
Moon’ has a pulsation not unlike an oscilloscope stuck on vector
display mode. A stoner doom chef-d'oeuvre.

‘Temple
Stone’ bestows supernatural sprays of cosmic distortion, mixed with
the mystical Helmholtz motion of a sitar, along with tidal waves of
rich and splendid organ.

Arc
of Descent hold the stoner doom talisman high and reveal that this
object is more than just a trinket, for held at its sanctified centre
is the crowned jewel of magnificence, all of which is representative
of a band on the way to a veteran realm status. In ‘Realms of the
Metaphysical’, the traditions of stoner rock and heavy doom are
fused together, showcasing the skills portrayed by this killer team
of the melodic elite and their most consummate sound to date.